Billy Jack gets swarmed like he is one of the Von Erichs here. I can already tell that this match is going to be enhanced by immense heat. Kendo's heat segment was simple but got a huge reaction and Billy was actually a good FIP. Also loved Billy's fired up winning of a chop exchange and his clothesline/diving elbow combo worked out well as a sparkplug finish.

 

Nagasaki opens up quick in the second fall. Billy Jack gets beat around and really demolished. He ends up on the floor where Nagasaki decks him with a chair and Billy bleeds a huge gusher all over the place. Nagasaki paints his chest with blood and works over Billy with kicks and Billy is really amazing selling the blood loss. Seriously blood less selling is something that is not that hard to sell, but Haynes is awesome looking woosy and totally gone here. He gets caught with the backbreaker sequence and they oddly count the fall once and then count it again after a side kick. Still this was kind of great.

 

Third fall was awesome as Billy Jack is on the defensive early, but he fires up with some big strikes that rattle Kendo. He bites him and then ends up trying to lock on a full nelson. Nagasaki is great struggling against it. Billy Jack finally locks it in and Kendo flees to the ropes but Haynes follows him over the top and refuses to let go of the hold leading to a double countout.

 

First fall was pretty good. Final two falls were actually awesome as fuck. Overall this will make the set one way or the other.

Not a listing that would excite anybody on the surface, but this was really good. It built from a solid match in the first fall to an all-out, bloody war. I always thought of Billy as a musclehead stiff, but he had his moments in Portland. He could sell a beating and come back with a lot of fire, both of which he did here. I'd never seen him show this kind of hand speed before. The battle over the full nelson in the third fall was terrific, and the countout actually made sense as a way of putting over Billy's blind rage at Nagasaki as they prepared for a kendo stick match. Easy yes.

 

Patterson Portland Disc 31